{"id":82071,"date":"2022-05-16T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82071"},"modified":"2022-05-15T20:17:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T01:17:24","slug":"timing-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82071","title":{"rendered":"Timing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019ve had some Republican friends express dismay about the timing of the Dobbs decision at the Supreme Court.  They fear is going to turn out a biblical wave of \u201cprogressive\u201c voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not without justification, they recall the debacle of the gay marriage amendment in Minnesota in 2012, which splattered with enough force to take out the voter ID proposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, that vote coincided with Barack Obama\u2018s reelection bid; progressives turned out for that, as well.<\/p><p><\/p><p>As for today?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/zaidjilani\/status\/1526005970048110594?s=21&#038;t=zY5BgiHRrkTSwg1NFnULEg\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The media will do their darndest to convince voters that everything is hunky-dory by this fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How gullible will they be? We\u2019ll see what a difference five months can make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve had some Republican friends express dismay about the timing of the Dobbs decision at the Supreme Court. They fear is going to turn out a biblical wave of \u201cprogressive\u201c voters. Not without justification, they recall the debacle of the gay marriage amendment in Minnesota in 2012, which splattered with enough force to take out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82072,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82071\/revisions\/82072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}